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Walmart Security Accuses Father of Kidnapping His Own Biracial Children
DC Breaking Local News Weather Sports FOX 5 WTTG A Virginia man was accused of kidnapping his own children last week because, according to Walmart security, a white man with biracial children just...
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Virginia Felons Get Voting Rights Back
Nonviolent felons in Virginia may soon have their voting rights automatically restored if Republican Governor Bob McDonnell’s proposal passes. In January, Virginia House of Delegates killed Gov. Bob...
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Law Students and Faculty Help Veterans with Disability Compensation
Not all injured vets have obvious scars; school law clinics are taking on pro bono cases for those who don’t have the visible markings of battle and have a hard time getting their disability...
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White Men Can Jump…Sometimes
Doug Zeigler reflects on a movie that he loves and his experiences on a basketball court that gave him a small window into how racism feels. — Over 20 years ago, Sidney Deene told Billy Hoyle, “Billy,...
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Merry Christmas, Husband
William Dameron stops at a restaurant with his husband, where a waitress thinks she is brave to say Merry Christmas. They then drive to North Carolina, a state where they don’t even know how to say...
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Virginia’s Attorney General’s Decision not to Defend Marriage Inequality is...
Newly inaugurated Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring (D) announced Thursday that he believes Virginia’s state marriage inequality amendment violates the United States Constitution and that he will...
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28 Black People You Probably Don’t Know About (But You Should)— Madison...
Madison Washington led the most successful slave revolt in U.S. history. Madison Washington was a free man living in Canada. He had escaped the United States and found freedom. At some point, he...
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Where Are You From? David Dorsett Explores What Home Means to Military Brats
GMP continues its celebration of The Month of the Military Child ___ Military brat is a title many of us wear with pride. After we hit 23 and lose our Military ID Card, along with our dependent...
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Federal Investigators Crack Down on Two Virginia Schools’ Use of Restraints
Investigators found that children were being regularly pinned down or isolated and that their education was suffering as a result. — by Heather Vogell, ProPublica Federal investigators have faulted...
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The GMP Sports NCAA Tournament Top Sixteen
We are less than a week away from the NCAA tournament getting started. GMP Sports jumps on the March Madness bandwagon, and provides you with our top 4 teams from each region and the players to watch....
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New Anti-Protest Laws are Incompatible With American Democracy
Embed from Getty Images By Laura Graham, Trinity College Dublin Civil protest is a crucial tenet of any free democracy – and in the US it’s protected by the Constitution’s first amendment. But a wave...
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Something’s Not Right In Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
— The Good Men Project, (GMP), invited me to write what I thought was going on in Charlottesville, Virginia in response to the “Unite The Right Rally.” I wasn’t asked personally by Lisa Hickey, The...
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Nat Turner’s Rebellion
Once Upon A Time… Remembering historical events and considering their significance for families today The big story today, of course, is the total solar eclipse. It’s rare they cross the United States...
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Va. Governor’s Race Could Surprise, Says Social
> Source: 30dB.com – @EdWGillespie-vs-@RalphNortham RealClearPolitics shows the lieutenant governor, Democrat Ralph Northam, ahead in the polls by an average of seven points, but Ed Gillespie, a...
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Dem Has Slight Edge in Tight Va. Governor’s Race
> Source: 30dB.com – @RalphNortham-vs-@EdWGillespie The two candidates are close in the polls, with RealClearPolitics giving Northam, who currently serves as Virginia’s lieutenant governor, a slight...
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Books: A Threat to Fascists
Two American classics, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and To Kill a Mockingbird, are again under assault. People have been calling for bans on these books since they were first printed....
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A Letter to My Sons
Embed from Getty Images — Dear Emery and Mkazo, It’s 11 p.m. Sunday, August 13, 2017, and I should be in bed. Your mom and I put you and your sister to bed a few hours ago after wrestling with the...
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Virginia Governor’s Mansion Faces Another Racism Allegation
— This morning started off like any other morning. I wandered around aimlessly for a few minutes while the hot water for my tea boiled, poured a bowl of Cinnamon Oat Crunch Cheerios and sat down at my...
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The Pocahontas Exception: Real and Imagined
— I bet you are wondering whether this is going to be about the senior senator from Massachusetts who is currently running for president and attracting the name “Pocahontas” as a racial epithet by the...
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400 Years After Slavery’s Start: No More Band-Aids
— By Jessicah Pierre Four hundred years ago this month, the first enslaved people from Africa arrived in Virginia. Slavery is often reduced to a crime of America’s long-ago past. But enslaved labor...
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